Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service 50-Year Long Service Decoration, With Case And Dedication Letter, By Deschler & Sohn GTRexclude the Iron Cross 2nd Class

the Iron Cross 2nd Class (October 31

engraver marked "NAGNI"

by the end of the War the Division surrendered to the US Army in Czechoslovakia

40th Battalion (Halifax

maker marked “PR

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service 50-Year Long Service Decoration, With Case And Dedication Letter, By Deschler & Sohn GTRexclude the Iron Cross 2nd Class(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre, mit Etui und Brief). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms and with a circular oak leaf wreath joining the quadrants, the obverse bearing a central black swastika, with the 12 oclock arm bearing a raised number 12, the reverse